It is well known that Tesla main electric car products spell SEXY. These are the Model S, Model 3, Model X and Model Y. The 3 looks like the E in certain fonts. Tesla also has three other products on the way and the existing Roadster. C for Cybertruck. A for ATV All-Terrain Vehicle. R …
Andrej Karpathy, Tesla Senior Director of AI gave a technical talk on Tesla’s self-driving AI at the Matroid Scaled Machine Learning Conference 2020. If Tesla is the first to succeed in the development of full self-driving, then this will enable Tesla to become a multi-trillion company Tesla has a few dozen developers in the AI …
SpaceX has successfully reused a faring and they have another successful launch of 60 Starlink Satellites. If they are able to use the v0.9 satellites then they have enough satellites for minor global coverage. Otherwise the next launch in May will get them the minimum for to start testing or operating at minimum levels the …
SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, April 22 at 3:30 p.m. EDT, or 19:30 p.m. UTC, for its seventh launch of Starlink satellites. Falcon 9 will lift off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. A backup opportunity is available on Thursday, April 23 at 3:15 p.m. EDT, or 19:15 UTC. As …
Australia developing warmer, cheaper and more robust quantum computing with qubits that need thousands of dollars of refrigeration instead of millions of dollars. Most current quantum computers need multi-million-dollar refrigeration and as soon as you plug them into conventional electronic circuits they’ll instantly overheat. Professor Andrew Dzurak and his team at UNSW Sydney have a …
A $483 billion coronavirus aid package flew through the Senate on Tuesday after Congress and the White House reached a deal to replenish a small-business payroll fund and provided new money for hospitals and testing. $331 billion will boost a small-business payroll loan program $75 billion for hospitals $25 billion will boost testing for the …
Based on the results of the first round of COVID-19 antibody testing, the USC research team estimates that approximately 4.1% of the LA county’s adult population has an antibody to the virus. Adjusting this estimate for the statistical margin of error implies about 2.8% to 5.6% of the county’s adult population has an antibody to …
On April 6, the US White House released an executive order that Americans should have the right to engage in commercial exploration, recovery, and use of resources in outer space, consistent with applicable law. * The United States is not a party to the Moon Agreement. The United States does not consider the Moon Agreement …
The National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB) is the largest small business association. Small Employers are in crisis and half will have to shut down in less than 2 months without help. Small businesses are half of America’s economy and account for nearly half of America’s jobs. Brad Close, president of the National Federation of …
West Texas Intermediate, the US benchmark, traded as low as -$40.32 a barrel today. The main delivery point for US oil, Cushing, Oklahoma has full storage. Storage tanks at Cushing will be full in May. The crude oil tanks around Cushing have approximately 91 million barrels of storage capacity. Many North American regions have fallen …
The IMF has a baseline scenario of -3% world GDP. There is extreme uncertainty around the duration and intensity of the health crisis. They also explore alternative, more adverse scenarios. The pandemic may not recede in the second half of this year, leading to longer durations of containment, worsening financial conditions, and further breakdowns of …